School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 14952)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 163](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0447%2FCBES_0447_163.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 163
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí
- XML Page 163
- XML “Local Cures”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 1. If you drink dandelion water you would never be thin.
2. If you place a withered cabbage leaf near your skin it would cure a pain.
3. Another cure for a pain is to cut a slice of potato and place it where the pain is.
4. A cure for asthma is the leaves of the oak.
5. A cure for a corn is an ivy leaf dipped in vinegar.- Collector
- Alice Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crag, Co. Kerry